Feb. 23rd, 2012

09:45 pm - SmartSpaces – the Smart Car of housing development

“Patrick Kennedy is a housing developer who likes to build small. His vision is to build the housing equivalent of the Smart Car, “What I want to do now is build the urban equivalent of Levittown – entry level, urban housing for about $200K each”.

Building prefab allows him to construct faster and more efficiently (avoiding a lot of construction waste) and everything down to the lighting and type of furniture has been studied carefully so that space is maximized in the tiny units.”

That's cool. If it's truly affordable, then it's an awesome thing for those with lower incomes (college students, recent grads). I'd like to see some of those designs applied to regular-sized living spaces.